veggen wrote:Hmm, I seem to be the only one who still likes Nautilus... I got hooked on it's List View. Hated it at first, but I now don't understand why no other file manager has that view, it's really useful. Ok, well, Marlin has it, but it's a Nautilus fork so it doesn't count.But still, I agree with bimsebasse. When they ax the extra pane (F3), Nautilus gets the boot.

While I prefer to use Dolphin, I think Nautilus is okay. Like you, I prefer List view. Some reasons why I prefer Dolphin:

- Easy to customize the toolbar. For example, Nautilus has no "New Tab" button and no "Home" button that you can put on the toolbar.- The button to split the screen into two panes; in Nautilus, you have to either press F3 or navigate to View > Extra Pane, and as you and bimsebasse have noted, they're getting rid of the extra pane, anyway.- Much easier to permanently switch to using an editable location bar; in Nautilus, you have to change a setting in dconf-editor or use the command gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry true.- The "Information" panel in Dolphin is very useful to me; Nautilus doesn't have one.

There are probably some other things I can't think of right now, but those are the main ones.

I just tried out Dolphin on Mint13 Cinnamon and Pengolin.I'm now uninstalling it.

+ pretty, nice menus and displays- the items in the places menu can be dragged and dropped!- when I installed it to Ubuntu the places menu was a detached, independent window with very little in the way of a border, such that when I tried to drag it to move it I accidentlaly dragged a place menu item instead and nearly moved a bunch of stuff to where I didn't want it. I had to be lightening fast to cancel the file transfer!!! I couldn't find the settings menu that would re-aggragate the detached menu.

Dolphin "out of the box" is not suitable for novices, in my brief experience of it.

Well, as I use GNOME no more now, I don't know precisely what they have done to Nautilus but in the GNOME 2 years it was the best file manager. It was complete enough, even it could use some protocols the others could not stand. But some time ago, I have read some articles where people explained the changes made to Nautilus progressively and I remember often I hated them. If this is the case, then Nautilus is dead, or almost. By the way, it's a GNOME app and as GNOME is................... But shush........

K.I.S.S. ===> "Keep It Simple, Stupid""Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." (Leonardo da Vinci)"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." (Albert Einstein)

Nice to see that Clem is working on a dedicated file manager for Cinnamon. While I don't use that desktop myself at the moment, I think it's great that Mint is more and more becoming a truly independent distro.

veggen wrote:For a moment there, you got my hopes up that someone somewhere made a Nautilus extension that will keep the 2nd pane feature when Gnome kills it... but it's just another commander-style manager...

Well... yes, because I like them Sorry about your hopes... but now that Clem have created a Nautilus fork, you can ask him to keep this feature in Nemo